Weight Loss Journey

It’s been forever since I’ve shared a weight loss post. 😯

To be honest, it’s not something I’ve wanted to blog about for a long time. I lose weight slowly and so it’s hard to stay motivated and focused on blogging about it when the weight comes off soooooo slowly.

But maybe I can just update you guys when there’s something to update and not update you when there’s nothing to report. How does that sound?

I think I’ll try that this time around.

So here’s where I’m at right now…at my last recorded weight (I use the MyFitnessPal app to track my weight but not for anything else at the moment.), I weighed 168.6 lbs.

I feel pretty ‘okay’ with my weight but, of course, I’d like to lose more for health reasons. I’d also like to finally not be overweight for my height, which is pretty short. LOL

Anyway, I’ve been working on following a mostly plant-based diet (or you could say lifestyle) for almost a year. It’s wonderful and it’s what finally made it possible for me to get into the 170s in 2021 and then finally into the 160s, which is where I’m at right now.

I love what I eat and my focus this year will be to eat more plant-based. Personally, I think it’s a delicious way to eat that’s completely doable as a lifestyle. For example, today, I had spaghetti with sauce (no meat) with peas mixed into it for lunch. It was a tasty meal that I can eat over and over again.

We’re actually following this lifestyle as a family but we did have lots of delicious, fat-filled, decadent foods over the holidays that we completely enjoyed. We planned on doing that and loved it. But now that the holidays are over, we’re ready to get back to more sensible and healthy eating as a family.

How Slowly I Lose Weight

To give you an idea of how slowly I lose weight, I started out last year around 185.4 lbs. and I ended up around 168.6 lbs. So, in an entire year, I lost around 16.8 lbs. Some people can lose that amount of weight in two months and it took me a whole year! LOL

That’s okay, though. I have hypothyroidism though I no longer take any drugs to “manage” it because the drugs made me feel worse than managing without them. I feel much better being off the drugs and I’m not going back to them.

I stopped taking meds years ago. I had been on them for years and experienced so many side effects (like heart palpitations, shortness of breath, mood swings, extreme difficulty losing weight, etc…) that it wasn’t worth it to stay on the meds. Plus, the long-term effects of taking levothyroxine are not something I look forward to either so I’m not looking back or going back to them at all.

Going Forward

So going forward, I plan on eating mostly plant-based and my goal for 2022 will be to lose 15 lbs. If I can do that, I will be thrilled! That would put at 153.6 lbs. and that would be pretty exciting. I haven’t been at that weight in over 20 years or since I was pregnant with my firstborn son, Nathan, who is now over 20 years old. 🙂

If you have a goal to lose weight this year, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. I obviously recommend a plant-based lifestyle to lose weight and keep it off in a healthy way. If you’re doing something else, please feel free to share! 

It’s time for a weight loss update.

Last week, I weighed in at 189.4 lbs, which means that I lost less than a pound. My previous weight was 190 lbs. But I still had a loss, so I’m going to happy about that even though I totally wish that I’d lost more.

Side note: The scale that I use to weigh myself right now weighs me at around 1 to 1.5 pounds MORE than my old scale did.

I regret getting rid of my old scale. But what can I do now?

Oh well! The small difference in my weight from scale to scale shouldn’t matter, but for some reason to me…it does. I’m not sure why. It’s a mental thing, and I just have to let it go.

Maybe it’s because I feel like every single ounce of weight that I have to lose is a struggle to get off. I’m not sure if I mentioned this before or not, but I have hypothyroidism. And while I don’t use that as an excuse to not lose weight, I do feel like it makes getting the pounds off so much more difficult.

Gaining weight, on the other hand, that’s easy! 😉

On the Plus Side

One thing that I’ve noticed as we’ve switched our diet to a whole foods plant-based diet is that I have tons of energy. Gone are the days where I’d wake up and feel “out of it” or still exhausted until early afternoon. Gone are the days when I’d walk up the stairs and then feel completely drained of energy.

I have energy that lasts all day long. I love it.

On several occasions, I’ve stopped after being on my feet and go-go-going for hours and thought, “I have so much energy. I feel good.”

It’s amazing. I haven’t felt this good in a long time, and I’m a better wife and mom because of it. We’re definitely going to continue with this new way of eating. Even though I’m not seeing the pounds come off as quickly as I’d like them to, I am seeing and feeling the benefits of eating meatless, dairy-free meals on a daily basis.

Here’s what my weight loss progress looks like so far:

Beginning weight: 193 lbs.

Current Weight: 189.4 lbs.

Goal Weight for 2014: 168 lbs.

# of total pounds I want to lose in 2014: 25 lbs.

# of pounds to go until I reach my goal: 21.4 lbs.

Total # of pounds lost to date: 3.6 lbs.

How is your weight loss progress coming along?